Two leading Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) manufactures are planning to establish assembling plants in Hambantota. The two companies from Korea and Europe have sought the Board of Investments approval to acquire lands near the Ruhunu Magampura Port for this project.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday day made her first political trip outside the repressive nation's main city Yangon, since her release from seven years of house arrest, a crucial journey that will test the limits of her freedom, agency reports said.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society (MPCS) of Vavuniya North have joined to re-tool a major rice milling operation damaged during the years of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.

Realising that it had underestimated the growing clout of Gandhian Anna Hazare, who is fighting for strong laws against corruption at every level in India, the Congress is resorting to “dirty tricks” to mar the image of the social activist.

Romantic Hindi film hero of the sixties Shammi Kapoor who was hailed as 'Elvis Presley of India' and whose famous yell 'Yahoo' signified the arrival of a rebel star against the reigning trio of his time Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar, passed away in Mumbai on Sunday due to chronic renal failure.

In the first week of August 2011, US Ambassador Cameron Munter while talking to media stated that they have an eye on Pakistan particularly Balochistan since the province is strategically very important to U.S. He also said that they will help Balochistan in energy and water projects.

We frequently read fatality related to motor car accidents due to drivers falling asleep while driving. Some of my very close friends were involved in a nasty accident, returning from a minor pilgrimage from Makkah to Riyadh, because the driver fell asleep while driving. There were three fatalities.